The rear window of Martha Nelson's Toyota Sienna was smashed with two cantaloupes while parked on Weyman Avenue over the weekend.

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Martha Nelson was getting ready to go to church Sunday when she found an unusual sight. The rear window of her Toyota Sienna had been smashed in - by two cantaloupes.

"Everything is messed up," she said Monday, a day after the vandalism was reported.

Nelson was not alone. Hers was one of at least nine vehicles bombed by melons and mangoes - four of them receiving damage - in what police said was the second wave of vandalism using fruit on the city's south side and east end. ...